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Company patents electrical shock device to be used for aviation security
As an airline passenger, there are many things that you can't take aboard. Water bottles, lacrosse sticks, snow globes... the list goes on. But what if, despite all of the measures taken by the Transportation Security Administration, someone still manages to cause some havoc on a plane?Lampered, a firearm training system, has patented a bracelet that delivers shocks when activated. What does the company see as the ideal use for such a bracelet? Aviation safety. Lampered proposes that the TSA require every passenger to wear one of the bracelets, and as soon as any safety related problems arise in-flight, flight-attendants can give a disabling electrical shock to a suspect passenger.
Somehow I can't keep images of large herds of sheep, all with collars to keep them from going past the electrical fence, out of my head. Oh the advances in security.
[Via Boing Boing]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Justin Glow Mar 21st 2008 11:22AM
This is just wrong on so many levels. Flight attendant not like your t-shirt? *SHOCK* Did a TSA forget to remove the Swiss Army knife from your bag? *SHOCK* Been in the bathroom too long? *SHOCK*
Stijn Mar 21st 2008 2:48PM
I agree with Justin!
It's not that I'm afrain to get shocked because I did something wrong.
It's more that giving a shock would be way to easy.
Another one to Justin's list: Stand up during meal service or a child pushing on the FA button. =O
m Jul 9th 2008 5:12PM
I would like to know what this does to an elderly passenger with a heart problem or someone with a pace maker. Sounds to me like it would be fatal! I do not believe it has anything to do with security, but rather big brother watching the every move of ordinary citizens.